whimbyte

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by whimbyte 8d ago
I made my own file manager to not have to use Finder so much. It's called WhimFiles and here's the tagline for it: "Narrow any folder by type, date, and size all at once. Jump anywhere with fuzzy folder search, hover to previ
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by whimbyte 1mo ago
I've been making native Mac utility apps to solve some of my (and hopefully others') needs. One is called WhimFiles and is a file manager for Mac that is only 9 MB. It started out with me wanting to clean up my Downloads folder an
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Show HN: WhimPop – A macOS menu that pops up under your cursor(whimpop.com)
3 points by whimbyte 2mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: WhimPop – A macOS menu that pops up under your cursor(whimpop.com)
1 points by whimbyte 2mo ago|0 comments
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by whimbyte 2mo ago
No worries. There were some minor initial setup/hiccups in the beginning of the project but overall I'm very happy with using .NET with Native AOT.
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by whimbyte 2mo ago
There's no web renderer at all. The UI is native AppKit (NSTableView, NSOutlineView, NSPanel, etc.) driven from C#/.NET via P/Invoke. It uses real Cocoa controls, not HTML/CSS in a Webview. The app doesn't phone hom
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by whimbyte 2mo ago
Not MAUI. It's .NET's macOS target (net10.0-macos, the macos workload that descends from Xamarin.Mac), which ships C# bindings for the native Apple frameworks. So the UI is plain AppKit used directly from C#.
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by whimbyte 2mo ago
Just pushed an update. There's now a setting in Preferences to disable icon previews on network volumes. You can also set which file extensions should be excluded, which I hope will fix the grinding. Grab the latest build from the site
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by whimbyte 2mo ago
> First screenshot on the front page has a design issue: text of selected file is in black instead of white. Good catch. That's already fixed (selected-row text is white now, matching Finder). Just an old screenshot on the site. I&#
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by whimbyte 2mo ago
> and I really dislike drag and drop behavior on macOS In the app you can have a dual pane with two folders side-by-side and select the file(s) you want to move/copy to the other folder and right click or open the command palette to
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by whimbyte 2mo ago
> does this index the disk to do this ? So the filemanager is working with an index rather than the files ? It could be stale ? Good question. There is no index. WhimFiles reads the actual directory live when you open it, and filtering r
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Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)(whimfiles.com)
98 points by whimbyte 2mo ago|75 comments
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by whimbyte 4mo ago
True. But it can be very helpful for learning new things.
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by whimbyte 4mo ago
Maybe not go live life completely offline. Just throw out the bad parts and keep the good. There's plenty of better things to do instead of doomscrolling, like taking a walk through nature.
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by whimbyte 4mo ago
There's also the sunk cost fallacy. Instead of removing code/features that it's becoming more and more obvious were a bad idea to begin with they get kept in the code base causing even more problems and delays because of &quo
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by whimbyte 1y ago
I created a 2D platformer inspired by the classic Mario games. The game is called Jolly Land Adventure and I made it because I wanted a simple platformer that's easy to just pick up and play. The game is available on Steam for Windows,